Well, it really has been a difficult and challenging couple of years; one of those miserable troughs that life sometimes puts in your path that just seem to go on and on and on…

As a result the layout spent a good 18 months dismantled and stacked at the back of a garage with everything railway modelling-related being boxed up and put on hold.

But, happily things are now back on the up again; new job, new home, getting married, and the layout has been retrieved, all the bits found, the dust blown off and the spiders evicted, and some first steps taken in getting the project going again with new track and turnouts being laid.

Only a small step perhaps, but a new beginning.